Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-09-14
NEWS IN BRIEF

Boston police claim to have routed
every opium joint in that city.
Chico. California, is enlivened by
twenty-four insurance agents.
Two theatres are in course of erec-
tion in Buffalo, New York, and g
third IS talked of,
1t is said there are more causeless
and cruel evictions IN New York city
than in Ireland.
An elevated road IS TO be built ID
Los Angeles, and operated by electric
ity to MonTovia.
The sharpest curve on the Elevated
Railroad in New York is stated to have
radius Of 80 feet.
Idaho has population or $4,000
and thirty-thTee newspapers, one to
every :, 400 inhabitants.
Numerous New Jersey farmers
have lately been swiudled 10y the
"lghtning-Tod trick"
st. Louis is agitating for four cent
car fares. In Buffalo they are alsC
clamOring for u reduction
The discovery of a large and rich
bed of gold quartz III the hulu Valley,
in the PunjauO, is reported.
General George \. Sheridan ana
Lieutenant General Phil. II. Sheridan
are not related to each other.
"A gift of go. .O00 has been received
/ by the University of Australia, for the
( founding Of chair of music.
twenty sportsmen of Foster
county, Dakota, turned out the other
/ day and killed 2,3Jl gOpheTs.
The same family, German papers
| say, has supplied Calyorde with its
/ Mayors for 100 successive years.
Humiliation Of insect (Damatianl
/ powder is assigned as cause of q
young mans death At II.ll, y. II.
The story Of Rip Van WIukle has
been found by Professor Basil Hall
! Chamberlain III the native japanese
folklore.
New Hampshire now has but 100
male and ) female couvIcts Ia hel
State penitentiaTy, the smallest number
for many years.
-SOutheTiand, the forger. who is IN
jail III Dawson, says he has been con-
veTted and is enjoying sweet cOmmuu-
ion with his God.
"A painter III Paris, Charles JaCqUe,
has been made temporarily blind by The
glare OF the sun STRIKING through the
skylight Of his atelier.
Topeka women made Sl40O re-
Gently without leaving the kitchen.
She invented an egg-beaJer and sold the
idea for that amount.
) The number of female physicians
in New \ OTk Is now placed at 80, IN
Guiding many whose yearly income
, runs IS high as $4,000.
sumner weather seems to inter
fere but little with theatricals in san
Francisco, where nearly if not all the
play houses are still open.
At st. Augustine. Florida. large
quantities of coquina IS beng taken
, from the ruins, and used for sidewalks
l and repairing the city streets.
"A Rutland (Er.) paper states that
John Il Craig, who recently visited
/, that place, weighs 500 pounds, and Is
the heaviest man IN the country.
, w. N. Wheeler, Of Hancock
, county, cut a watermelon recently,
, and when opened it displayed a dis
tincCiy formed w on both halves.
London has its Camden, it seems.
AT one church, in the East End, all
corners are married at the low rate of
seven pence ha' penny per couple.
r An OLD well near Rayenna, Ohio,
% az attracting attention by blowing
2 sucking air JIM, as it takes a notion.
"A smallpox scare at Los Angeles.
California, has resulted I'D the expendi-
ture of about SO, 600 in improving the
general sanitary condition of the place.
"A monster Clau-na-GaeI demon
stratiOn was held in CaledOuian Park,
Newark, on June 1G. Prominent Irish
men from New Y York, Philadelphia, and
other places were present
Chambers Journal uses, as an ex-
ample OF startling metaphor, Gordon
Cummings comparison OF an African
Jungle TO forest of fish hooks relieved
by patches OF penkniyes.
Sea serpent observers now have an
extra mducemeut TO attempt Its cap
tuTe. a famous Snowman offers
twenty thousand dollars for the mon
ster, provided it Is City feet il length.
in San Francisco, too. they're anx-
Iously endeavoring to solve the prob
lem OF the most advisable disposition
to make OF the cIty's garbage. CrEma-
tiOn seems TO be fayOTably looked upon.
: The ancient form of trade, barter,
} is still adhered to by the inhabitants
! OF the little town of Clausthol, in the
HartZ Mountains, widely known FOX
g The lowest sOuna r5CUEulzgu IT
: music has 32 vibrations in a second
The highest &c, 9th octave), l6. .3S4 pei
2 second. Vibrations may he heard be.
{ low and considerably above these dg
0 uTes.
/ "A rheumatic cure IS the favoritt
Il tipple OF the Indian on one reserva
{ tion in Washington Territory, a terri
+ tOrial newspaper says, and on another
/ they get just as drunk on a brand Oi
Il jamaica ginger.
y IL - T2,,+1,., 1
Vermont, who lost his watch two years
ago while on fishing excursion, ha,
: just had the timepiece returned to hin
! with the explanation that it was founJ
in mid air dangling by the chain frc.l
a twig.
o "A western wholesale marbl,
It dealer has just made one OF tn
o largest purchases of blocks and sawed
Il marble ever cOnsummated in Yer
&, mont. 1t amounts in all to seventy
+ five carloads.
{ One of the most eccentric suicide.
II of recent occurrence was that Of
IS Steuben (Me.) man, named Kelley
g who went TO the river, drove a stake
tied himself to II with a rope ant
drowned himself.
Barn dances are popular with th
;. guests at country resorts in Orange an,
= Sullivan counties, New York. tn
. dancers dress in fancy costume q, an
70 the effectls said TO be quite picturesque
> the barns being lighted up with wa,
a candles.
: "A resident of DanIelsville, Maine
= was lately wheeling a wheelbarror
: load of brick, on top OF which was hi
" son, aged seven years. The lad fell OF
= and was run over 10y the wheel5arrOy
" and instantly killed.
"a Lightning struck Mrs. Julia Shot
n well, recently, at HacKettstowu, Me-